Country size comparison
compared to
El Salvador is about 13 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 7.91% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (5.9 million more people live in El Salvador).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
El Salvador
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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