Country size comparison
compared to
Louisiana is about 2.4 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km,
while Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, making
Louisiana 42.42% the size of Western Sahara.
Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people
(3.9 million more people live in Louisiana).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Louisiana
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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