Country size comparison

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Turkey is about 2.2 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, making Turkey 44.53% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (75.9 million more people live in Turkey).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Turkey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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