Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 15 times bigger than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 1,367% larger than Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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