Western Sahara is about 3.8 times smaller than Egypt.

Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 26.56% the size of Egypt. Meanwhile, the population of Egypt is ~107.8 million people (107.1 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Egypt vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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