Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 37 times smaller than United States.
United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 2.71% the size of United States. Meanwhile, the population of United States is ~337.3 million people (336.7 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
United States
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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