Country size comparison
Laos
compared to
Mauritania
Laos is about 4.3 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, making Laos 22.97% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.6 million more people live in Laos).
We have positioned the outline of Mauritania near the middle of Laos.
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This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Laos
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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