Western Sahara is about 1.5 times smaller than Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is approximately 390,757 sq km, while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making Western Sahara 68.07% the size of Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, the population of Zimbabwe is ~15.1 million people (14.5 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of Zimbabwe vs. Western Sahara uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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