Western Sahara is about 2.5 times smaller than Texas.

Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 39.23% the size of Texas. Meanwhile, the population of Texas is ~25.1 million people (24.5 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Texas vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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