Country size comparison

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Madagascar is about 1.8 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, making Madagascar 56.96% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (24.0 million more people live in Madagascar).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Madagascar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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