Country size comparison

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Washington is about 1.5 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, making Washington 64.79% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (6.1 million more people live in Washington).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Washington uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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