Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 3.6 times smaller than Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 28.08% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (63.2 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Tanzania
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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