Qatar is about 23 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 4.36% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (1.9 million more people live in Qatar).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Qatar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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