Country size comparison

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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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