Western Sahara is about 12 times smaller than India.

India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 8.09% the size of India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of India vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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