Western Sahara is about 3.6 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 28.08% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (63.2 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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