Country size comparison

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Cocos (Keeling) Islands is about 19,000 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Cocos (Keeling) Islands is approximately 14 sq km, making Cocos (Keeling) Islands 0.01% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (651,675 fewer people live in Cocos (Keeling) Islands).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Cocos (Keeling) Islands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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