Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 9 times bigger than Belgium.
Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 771% larger than Belgium. Meanwhile, the population of Belgium is ~11.8 million people (11.2 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Belgium
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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