Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 1.5 times bigger than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 52% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (36.6 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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