Country size comparison
compared to
Botswana is about 2.2 times bigger than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making Botswana 119% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (1.7 million more people live in Botswana).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Botswana
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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