Eritrea is about 2.3 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 44.21% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (5.6 million more people live in Eritrea).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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