Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 4.7 times smaller than Mali.
Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 21.45% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (20.1 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Mali
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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