Country size comparison
compared to
Kuwait is about 58 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 1.73% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Kuwait
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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