Country size comparison

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South Korea is about 18 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 5.67% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (44.7 million more people live in South Korea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. South Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from South Korea to Libya · UN DESA 2020
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