Country size comparison

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Western Sahara is about 8 times smaller than Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 12.37% the size of Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the population of Saudi Arabia is ~35.4 million people (34.7 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Saudi Arabia vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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