Country size comparison

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Central African Republic is about 1.6 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Central African Republic is approximately 622,984 sq km, making Central African Republic 60.44% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (1.3 million more people live in Central African Republic).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Central African Republic uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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