Country size comparison

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Mauritania is about 55 times bigger than New Caledonia.

New Caledonia is approximately 18,575 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 5,449% larger than New Caledonia. Meanwhile, the population of New Caledonia is ~297,160 people (3.9 million more people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of New Caledonia vs. Mauritania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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