Country size comparison
compared to
Ecuador is around the same size as Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Ecuador is approximately 283,561 sq km, making Ecuador 7% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (16.6 million more people live in Ecuador).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Ecuador
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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