Country size comparison
Western Sahara
compared to
Botswana
Western Sahara is about 2.2 times smaller than Botswana.
Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 45.73% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (1.7 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
We have positioned the outline of Botswana near the middle of Western Sahara.
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This to-scale comparison of
Botswana
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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