Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 10 times smaller than Canada.
Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 10.32% the size of Canada. Meanwhile, the population of Canada is ~38.2 million people (34.1 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Canada
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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