Country size comparison
compared to
Virginia is about 2.6 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 38.55% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (7.3 million more people live in Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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