Country size comparison

 Western Sahara
compared to
 China

Western Sahara is about 36 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 2.77% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Western Sahara). We have positioned the outline of China near the middle of Western Sahara.
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Flip comparison: see Western Sahara on top of China
This to-scale comparison of China vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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