Libya vs Zambia: Urban area over the long-term

Libya
1,243 km² per grid cell
in 2025
Zambia
1,407 km² per grid cell
in 2025
Libya rank
85th
Zambia rank
83rd

Urban area over the long-term over time

  • Libya
  • Zambia
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How they compare

Zambia currently reports 1,407 km² per grid cell against 1,243 km² per grid cell in Libya, a difference of 163.18 km² per grid cell.

That makes Zambia's figure about 1.1 times Libya's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Libya ahead.

Libya ranks 85th and Zambia ranks 83rd of 202 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Urban area over the long-term
Unit
km² per grid cell
Source
HYDE (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
202 places, 21,816 data points, 1000–2025
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Total built-up area of a country over time.