Country size comparison

compared to

Lesotho is about 9 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 11.41% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (1.5 million more people live in Lesotho).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.