Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is around the same size as Venezuela.
Venezuela is approximately 912,050 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 13% larger than Venezuela. Meanwhile, the population of Venezuela is ~29.8 million people (25.6 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Venezuela
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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