Country size comparison

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Western Sahara is about 9 times smaller than Algeria.

Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 11.17% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~47.4 million people (46.8 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Algeria vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Western Sahara to Algeria · UN DESA 2020
162,952 people born in Western Sahara live in Algeria.
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