Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 13 times bigger than El Salvador.
El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 1,164% larger than El Salvador. Meanwhile, the population of El Salvador is ~6.6 million people (5.9 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
El Salvador
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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