Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 6 times bigger than Uruguay.
Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 485% larger than Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (754,712 more people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Uruguay
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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