Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 64 times smaller than Russia.
Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km,
while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making
Western Sahara 1.56% the size of Russia.
Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people
(141.4 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Russia
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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