Country size comparison
compared to
Tanzania is about 3.6 times bigger than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 256% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (63.2 million more people live in Tanzania).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Tanzania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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