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.

Share this