Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 1.5 times bigger than Uruguay.
Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 51% larger than Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (2.8 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Uruguay
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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