Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 144 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 0.69% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (6.8 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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