Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 2 times bigger than Nicaragua.
Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 104% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (5.6 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Nicaragua
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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