Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 2.9 times bigger than Portugal.
Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 189% larger than Portugal. Meanwhile, the population of Portugal is ~10.2 million people (9.6 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Portugal
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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