Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 6 times bigger than Switzerland.
Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 544% larger than Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (7.9 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Switzerland
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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