Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 1.9 times smaller than Spain.
Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 52.63% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people (46.5 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Spain
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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