Country size comparison

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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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