Country size comparison
compared to
Malawi is about 9 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 11.5% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (16.6 million more people live in Malawi).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Malawi
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