Country size comparison

compared to

Alabama is about 2 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, making Alabama 49.41% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (4.1 million more people live in Alabama).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Alabama uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.