Country size comparison
compared to
Algeria is about 9 times bigger than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, making Algeria 795% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (43.5 million more people live in Algeria).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Algeria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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