Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is around the same size as Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 9% larger than Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (59.7 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Tanzania
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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