Country size comparison

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Samoa is about 622 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 0.16% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.5 million people (7.2 million fewer people live in Samoa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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