Country size comparison
Mauritania
compared to
France
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).
We have positioned the outline of France near the middle of Mauritania.
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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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