Country size comparison
compared to
Qatar is about 23 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 4.36% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (1.9 million more people live in Qatar).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Qatar
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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