Western Sahara is about 2.2 times smaller than Madagascar.

Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 45.31% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (27.5 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Madagascar vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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