Country size comparison
compared to
Netherlands is about 6 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 15.62% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (16.7 million more people live in Netherlands).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Netherlands
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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