Country size comparison

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Cabo Verde is about 256 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Cabo Verde is approximately 4,033 sq km, making Cabo Verde 0.39% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.6 million fewer people live in Cabo Verde).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Cabo Verde uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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