Western Sahara is about 4.2 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 24.09% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (113.0 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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