Country size comparison
compared to
Iceland is about 10 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 9.99% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.8 million fewer people live in Iceland).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Iceland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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