Country size comparison
compared to
Maldives is about 893 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.11% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (262,107 fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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