Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 49 times bigger than El Salvador.
El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 4,799% larger than El Salvador. Meanwhile, the population of El Salvador is ~6.6 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
El Salvador
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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