Libya is a very large country: it covers about 1,759,540 square kilometers, or roughly 679,000 square miles.

How big is that, really?

  • It is the 4th-largest country in Africa and in the Arab world.
  • It ranks about 16th in the world by land area.
  • It is a bit larger than the U.S. state of Alaska.
  • It is about seven times the size of the United Kingdom.

So if you imagine the whole UK copied seven times and stitched together, you get roughly the land area of Libya spread across North Africa’s deserts and Mediterranean coastline.

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