Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 25 times bigger than Netherlands.
Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 2,381% larger than Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (13.2 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Netherlands
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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