Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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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