Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 3.2 times bigger than Austria.
Austria is approximately 83,871 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 217% larger than Austria. Meanwhile, the population of Austria is ~8.9 million people (8.3 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Austria
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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