Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 1.8 times bigger than Botswana.
Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 77% larger than Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (1.8 million more people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Botswana
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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