Western Sahara is about 6 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 16.14% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (86.1 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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