Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 2.7 times bigger than South Korea.
South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 167% larger than South Korea. Meanwhile, the population of South Korea is ~51.8 million people (51.2 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
South Korea
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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