Country size comparison
compared to
American Samoa is about 4,601 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while American Samoa is approximately 224 sq km, making American Samoa 0.02% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (4.1 million fewer people live in American Samoa).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
American Samoa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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