Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 9 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 10.74% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
China
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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