Western Sahara is about 7 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 15.12% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (6.5 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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