Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 2.5 times bigger than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km,
while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making
Afghanistan 145% larger than Western Sahara.
Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people
(37.7 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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