Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 3.9 times bigger than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 287% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (3.5 million more people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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