Country size comparison

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Mauritania is about 2 times bigger than Spain.

Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 104% larger than Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people (43.0 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of Spain vs. Mauritania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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