Country size comparison
compared to
Nigeria is about 3.5 times bigger than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 247% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (224.4 million more people live in Nigeria).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Nigeria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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