Country size comparison
compared to
New Caledonia is about 55 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while New Caledonia is approximately 18,575 sq km, making New Caledonia 1.8% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.9 million fewer people live in New Caledonia).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
New Caledonia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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