Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 3.4 times bigger than Italy.
Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 242% larger than Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people (56.9 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Italy
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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