Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is around the same size as Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 12% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (7.1 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Laos
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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