Country size comparison

compared to

Western Sahara is about 2.6 times bigger than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 159% larger than Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (7.3 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.