Western Sahara is about 2 times smaller than Yemen.

Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 50.38% the size of Yemen. Meanwhile, the population of Yemen is ~31.0 million people (30.3 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Yemen vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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