Country size comparison

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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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