Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 2.2 times bigger than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 123% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (5.4 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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