Country size comparison
compared to
Switzerland is about 6 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km,
while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making
Switzerland 15.52% the size of Western Sahara.
Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people
(7.9 million more people live in Switzerland).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Switzerland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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