Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 2.5 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 40.78% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (37.7 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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