Country size comparison
Botswana
compared to
Mauritania
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).
We have positioned the outline of Mauritania near the middle of Botswana.
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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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