Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 2.2 times bigger than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 119% larger than Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (2.3 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Mississippi
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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