Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 1.4 times bigger than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 42% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (20.9 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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