Country size comparison
compared to
Iraq is about 2.4 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 42.53% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (36.3 million more people live in Iraq).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Iraq
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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