Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 23 times bigger than Qatar.
Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 2,196% larger than Qatar. Meanwhile, the population of Qatar is ~2.5 million people (1.9 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Qatar
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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