Country size comparison

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China is about 9 times bigger than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 831% larger than Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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