Country size comparison

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Taiwan is about 49 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 2.04% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (16.4 million more people live in Taiwan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Taiwan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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