Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is around the same size as Italy.
Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 88.27% the size of Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people (60.4 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Italy
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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