Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 1.2 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 84.55% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (53.4 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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