Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 12 times bigger than Austria.
Austria is approximately 83,871 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 1,129% larger than Austria. Meanwhile, the population of Austria is ~8.9 million people (4.8 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Austria
vs.
Mauritania
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