Western Sahara is about 8 times smaller than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 12.28% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (594,479 more people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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