Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 10 times bigger than South Korea.
South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 934% larger than South Korea. Meanwhile, the population of South Korea is ~51.8 million people (47.7 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
South Korea
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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