Country size comparison
compared to
Latvia is about 16 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 6.27% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (2.3 million fewer people live in Latvia).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Latvia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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