Country size comparison
compared to
Japan is about 1.4 times bigger than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 42% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (123.6 million more people live in Japan).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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