Algeria is about 9 times bigger than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, making Algeria 795% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (43.5 million more people live in Algeria).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Algeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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