Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 9 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 755% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (21.8 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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