Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is around the same size as Ecuador.
Ecuador is approximately 283,561 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 93.81% the size of Ecuador. Meanwhile, the population of Ecuador is ~17.3 million people (16.6 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Ecuador
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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