Western Sahara is about 1.2 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 80.64% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (33.2 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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