Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 1.4 times smaller than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km,
while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making
Western Sahara 70.39% the size of Japan.
Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people
(123.6 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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