Western Sahara is about 3 times smaller than Turkey.

Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 33.95% the size of Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~83.0 million people (82.4 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Turkey vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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