Western Sahara is about 7 times smaller than Indonesia.

Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 13.97% the size of Indonesia. Meanwhile, the population of Indonesia is ~277.3 million people (276.7 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Indonesia vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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