Cabo Verde is about 66 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Cabo Verde is approximately 4,033 sq km, making Cabo Verde 1.52% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (55,564 fewer people live in Cabo Verde).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Cabo Verde uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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