Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 8 times smaller than Australia.
Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 13.31% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (22.0 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Australia
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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