Hong Kong is about 240 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.42% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (6.6 million more people live in Hong Kong).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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