Size comparison

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Australia is about 1.2 times smaller than Sahara Desert.

Sahara Desert is approximately 9,200,000 km² (3,552,138 sq mi), while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 84.14% the size of Sahara Desert.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sahara Desert vs. Australia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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