Uruguay is about 1.5 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 66.25% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (2.8 million more people live in Uruguay).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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