Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 16 times bigger than Latvia.
Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 1,496% larger than Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (2.3 million more people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Latvia
vs.
Mauritania
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