Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 1.9 times bigger than France.
France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 87% larger than France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (64.1 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
France
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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