Country size comparison
compared to
Iraq is about 1.6 times bigger than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 65% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (39.8 million more people live in Iraq).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Iraq
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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