Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 12 times bigger than Israel.
Israel is approximately 21,937 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 1,113% larger than Israel. Meanwhile, the population of Israel is ~8.9 million people (8.3 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Israel
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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