Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 10 times smaller than United States.
United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 10.48% the size of United States. Meanwhile, the population of United States is ~337.3 million people (333.2 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
United States
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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