Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 47 times bigger than Israel.
Israel is approximately 21,937 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 4,598% larger than Israel. Meanwhile, the population of Israel is ~8.9 million people (4.8 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Israel
vs.
Mauritania
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