Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 3.6 times bigger than Ecuador.
Ecuador is approximately 283,561 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 263% larger than Ecuador. Meanwhile, the population of Ecuador is ~17.3 million people (13.1 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Ecuador
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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