Western Sahara is about 4.8 times smaller than Chad.

Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 20.72% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~18.0 million people (17.3 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Chad vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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