Country size comparison
compared to
Uruguay is about 1.5 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 66.25% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (2.8 million more people live in Uruguay).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Uruguay
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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