Country size comparison
compared to
Sao Tome and Principe is about 276 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.36% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (435,107 fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Sao Tome and Principe
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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