Country size comparison

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Vietnam is about 5 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Vietnam is approximately 331,210 sq km, making Vietnam 18.82% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (96.7 million more people live in Vietnam).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Vietnam uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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