Western Sahara is about 6 times smaller than Mongolia.

Mongolia is approximately 1,564,116 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 17.01% the size of Mongolia. Meanwhile, the population of Mongolia is ~3.2 million people (2.6 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Mongolia vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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