Country size comparison
compared to
Egypt is around the same size as Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, making Egypt 97.16% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (103.6 million more people live in Egypt).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Egypt
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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