Country size comparison
compared to
Australia is about 29 times bigger than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 2,810% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (25.5 million more people live in Australia).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Australia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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