Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 3.9 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 25.81% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.5 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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