Country size comparison
compared to
Nauru is about 12,667 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Nauru is approximately 21 sq km, making Nauru 0.01% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (642,460 fewer people live in Nauru).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Nauru
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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