Country size comparison

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Peru is about 1.4 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, making Peru 73.04% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (25.1 million more people live in Peru).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Peru uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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