Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 3.1 times bigger than Malaysia.
Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 212% larger than Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (29.7 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Malaysia
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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