Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 15 times bigger than Kuwait.
Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 1,393% larger than Kuwait. Meanwhile, the population of Kuwait is ~3.1 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Kuwait
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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