Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 4.8 times smaller than Niger.
Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 20.99% the size of Niger. Meanwhile, the population of Niger is ~24.5 million people (23.8 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Niger
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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