Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 29 times bigger than Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 2,822% larger than Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Puerto Rico
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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