Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 29 times smaller than Australia.
Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 3.44% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (25.5 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Australia
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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