Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is around the same size as Uganda.
Uganda is approximately 241,038 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 10% larger than Uganda. Meanwhile, the population of Uganda is ~46.2 million people (45.6 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Uganda
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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