Country size comparison

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Libya is about 2.2 times bigger than Turkey.

Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 125% larger than Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~83.0 million people (75.9 million fewer people live in Libya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Turkey vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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