Western Sahara is about 29 times bigger than Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 2,822% larger than Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Puerto Rico vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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