Western Sahara is about 3.1 times smaller than Namibia.

Namibia is approximately 824,292 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 32.27% the size of Namibia. Meanwhile, the population of Namibia is ~2.7 million people (2.1 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Namibia vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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