Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 1.9 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 85% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.2 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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