Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 1.2 times smaller than Norway.
Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 82.15% the size of Norway. Meanwhile, the population of Norway is ~5.6 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Norway
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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