Country size comparison

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Democratic Republic of the Congo is about 9 times bigger than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Democratic Republic of the Congo is approximately 2,344,858 sq km, making Democratic Republic of the Congo 782% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (107.8 million more people live in Democratic Republic of the Congo).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Democratic Republic of the Congo uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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