Country size comparison

compared to

New Zealand is about 3.8 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 26.08% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (891,079 more people live in New Zealand).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. New Zealand uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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