China is about 36 times bigger than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 3,508% larger than Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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