Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 34 times bigger than Lesotho.
Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 3,295% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (2.0 million more people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Lesotho
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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