Country size comparison

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Israel is about 12 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Israel is approximately 21,937 sq km, making Israel 8.25% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (8.3 million more people live in Israel).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Israel uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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