Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 17 times bigger than Svalbard.
Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 1,561% larger than Svalbard. Meanwhile, the population of Svalbard is ~2,926 people (4.2 million more people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Svalbard
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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