Country size comparison
compared to
Botswana is about 1.8 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making Botswana 56.44% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (1.8 million fewer people live in Botswana).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Botswana
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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