Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 9 times smaller than Algeria.
Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 11.17% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~44.2 million people (43.5 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Algeria
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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