Population is about 603,253 people, the 171st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 12,726 of everyone alive.
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W. Sahara
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ยท Western Sahara
Africa
ยท Northern Africa
0Population
266Kkmยฒ of land
$1.5KGDP / person
-Capital
- ISO codes
- EH ยท SAH
- Density
- 2 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Berber, Hassaniya, Spanish
- Currencies
- Algerian dinar (DZD), Moroccan dirham (MAD), Mauritanian ouguiya (MRU)
- Dial code
- +2
- Internet domain
- .eh
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 23.9680ยฐ N, 12.6300ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Sahrawi
- UN region
- Northern Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $907M
- Sovereignty
- Not independent ยท not a UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How W. Sahara stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
171st
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world population
Land area
79th
of 242 ยท 0.18% of world land
GDP per person
199th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
227th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about W. Sahara
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 266,000 kmยฒ, making it the 79th largest country here - about 8.7 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 2 people per kmยฒ.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Algeria, Mauritania and Morocco.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/El Aaiun.
The currency is the Algerian dinar (DZD, symbol ุฏุฌ).
Has 3 official languages: Berber, Hassaniya and Spanish.
Dials on +2 and uses the .eh internet domain.
Annual GDP is around $1 billion - the 208th largest economy here, or about $1,504 per person.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/El Aaiun
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UTC+00:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Bir Lehlou
26.1192ยฐ N, 9.6525ยฐ W
500
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with W. Sahara.