Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 4.6 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 21.82% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (56.9 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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