Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 1.4 times bigger than Senegal.
Senegal is approximately 196,722 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 35% larger than Senegal. Meanwhile, the population of Senegal is ~17.9 million people (17.3 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Senegal
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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