Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 1.2 times smaller than Chad.
Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 80.27% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~18.0 million people (13.8 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Chad
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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