Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 8 times smaller than Brazil.
Brazil is approximately 8,515,770 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 12.1% the size of Brazil. Meanwhile, the population of Brazil is ~217.2 million people (213.1 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Brazil
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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