Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 2.7 times bigger than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 173% larger than Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (120.1 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
Note: Try dragging the outline to reposition.
