Western Sahara is around the same size as Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 97.01% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (21.3 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Burkina Faso vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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