Country size comparison
compared to
Pennsylvania is about 15 times smaller than Libya.
Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, making Pennsylvania 6.6% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (5.6 million more people live in Pennsylvania).
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