Western Sahara is about 2.5 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 40.78% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (37.7 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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