Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is around the same size as New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 98.94% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (4.4 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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