Country size comparison

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Switzerland is about 6 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 15.52% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (7.9 million more people live in Switzerland).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Switzerland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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