Country size comparison
compared to
New York is about 2.2 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 45.97% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (18.7 million more people live in New York).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
New York
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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