Quality of life comparison
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If you lived in Guatemala instead of Western Sahara, you would:
Geography
see 64.0% less coastline
Western Sahara has a total of 1,110 km of coastline. In Guatemala, that number is 400 km.
Sources: The World Factbook. How we calculate this
Compare further: Western Sahara vs. Guatemala
Guatemala: At a glance
Guatemala is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 107,159 sq km. The Maya civilization flourished in Guatemala and surrounding regions during the first millennium A.D. After almost three centuries as a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experienced a variety of military and civilian governments, as well as a 36-year guerrilla war. In 1996, the government signed a peace agreement formally ending the internal conflict, which had left more than 200,000 people dead and had created, by some estimates, about 1 million refugees.
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