Country size comparison

compared to

Puerto Rico is about 113 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 0.88% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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