Country size comparison

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Malta is about 5,568 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making Malta 0.02% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (6.7 million fewer people live in Malta).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Malta uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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