Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 1.6 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km,
while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making
Western Sahara 60.69% the size of Iraq.
Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people
(39.8 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Iraq
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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