Country size comparison
compared to
Italy is around the same size as Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 13% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (60.4 million more people live in Italy).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Italy
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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