Puerto Rico is about 29 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 3.42% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (2.4 million more people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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