Libya

Facts

What the numbers say about Libya

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 10.5× the size of Libya.
• Libya ranks 17th of 239 by area but only 104th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 4.5 people per km², Libya is the 173rd most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 27°N is drawn about 1.3× too large in area, so Libya looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Libya's main territory stretches about 1,520 km north to south and 1,590 km east to west.
• Our measured 1,624,000 km² is 7.7% below Wikidata's official figure of 1,760,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

How Libya measures up

Libya holds 5.4% of the land area and 0.5% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Northern Africa it is the 3rd largest of 7.

Where Libya sits

• Libya's centre lies at 27.0°N, 18.1°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 3,000 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 19°N to 33°N, about 1,520 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Libya had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Libya would have 2.03 billion people. It has 7.4 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Libya would have 6.0 million people. It has 7.4 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 117.5 million.

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