Country size comparison
compared to
Romania is around the same size as Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Romania is approximately 238,391 sq km, making Romania 89.62% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (17.9 million more people live in Romania).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Romania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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