Asia dwarfs Libya: about 44,580,000 km² km² against 1,626,369 km² km². At true size Asia is about 27.4× larger — the whole of Libya fits into Asia roughly 27 times.
The old Mercator map treated both about equally (1× vs 1.3× inflation), so at least their relative sizes were preserved — even if both were drawn at the wrong absolute scale.
Libya fits 27× into Asia.