Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 2.4 times smaller than Somalia.
Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km,
while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making
Western Sahara 41.72% the size of Somalia.
Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people
(11.7 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Somalia
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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