Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 2.2 times bigger than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km,
while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making
Western Sahara 118% larger than New York.
Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people
(18.7 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
New York
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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