Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 1.5 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 65.86% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (36.6 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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