Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 1.7 times smaller than Sweden.
Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 59.07% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (9.8 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Sweden
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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