Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 2.1 times smaller than Greenland.
Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 47.58% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (4.1 million more people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Greenland
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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