Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 1.8 times smaller than Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 54.5% the size of Turkmenistan. Meanwhile, the population of Turkmenistan is ~5.6 million people (5.0 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Turkmenistan
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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