Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 2.1 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km,
while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making
North Carolina 47.43% the size of Western Sahara.
Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people
(8.9 million more people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
North Carolina
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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