Country size comparison
compared to
Libya is about 1.7 times bigger than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 71% larger than Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.0 million more people live in Libya).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Libya
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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