Country size comparison
Mauritania
compared to
Niger
Mauritania is about 1.2 times smaller than Niger.
Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 81.35% the size of Niger. Meanwhile, the population of Niger is ~24.5 million people (20.3 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
We have positioned the outline of Niger near the middle of Mauritania.
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This to-scale comparison of
Niger
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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