Country size comparison
compared to
Belgium is about 9 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 11.48% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (11.2 million more people live in Belgium).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Belgium
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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