Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 34 times bigger than Belgium.
Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 3,276% larger than Belgium. Meanwhile, the population of Belgium is ~11.8 million people (7.7 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Belgium
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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