Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 2.2 times bigger than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 125% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (20.1 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Malawi
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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