Country size comparison

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Uruguay is about 10 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 10.01% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (3.7 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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