Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 3.8 times bigger than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 283% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (891,079 fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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