Country size comparison

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Yemen is about 3.3 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 30.01% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (23.8 million more people live in Yemen).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Yemen uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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