Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 2.3 times bigger than Sweden.
Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 129% larger than Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (6.3 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Sweden
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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