Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 1.7 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 57.47% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (8.9 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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