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Egypt vs Libya

Egypt and Libya are compared here on capital city, currency, country calling code, ISO codes, population, area, languages and driving side, using the same source fields for both so every row is like for like.

First country

Second country

Egypt

EGY · +20

VS

Libya

LBY · +218

Every field, side by side

Numeric rows carry a proportional bar. The larger figure is marked.

Official name

مصر‎

‏ليبيا

Capital

Cairo

Tripoli

Country calling code

+20

+218

ISO alpha-2

EG

LY

ISO alpha-3

EGY

LBY

Currency

Egyptian pound

Libyan dinar

Currency code

EGP

LYD

Population

102,334,403larger

6,871,287

Area

1,002,450 km²

1,759,540 km²larger

Continent

Africa

Region

Northern Africa

Languages

Arabic

Time zone

UTC+02:00

UTC+01:00

Land borders

3

6

Internet domain

.eg

.ly

Drives on the

right

Centre point

27, 30

25, 17

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