Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 9 times bigger than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 770% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (16.6 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Malawi
vs.
Mauritania
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