Country size comparison

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Australia is about 8 times bigger than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 651% larger than Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (22.0 million more people live in Australia).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Australia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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