Country size comparison

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Sudan is around the same size as Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, making Sudan 6% larger than Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (40.8 million more people live in Sudan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Sudan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Sudan to Libya · UN DESA 2020
15,400 people born in Sudan live in Libya.
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