Country size comparison

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Libya is about 49 times bigger than Taiwan.

Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 4,790% larger than Taiwan. Meanwhile, the population of Taiwan is ~23.6 million people (16.4 million fewer people live in Libya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Taiwan vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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