Country size comparison

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Nigeria is about 1.9 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 52.5% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (217.9 million more people live in Nigeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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