Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 2.2 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 121% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (25.3 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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