Portugal is about 2.9 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, making Portugal 34.62% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (9.6 million more people live in Portugal).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Portugal uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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