Country size comparison

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Sao Tome and Principe is about 1,069 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.09% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.9 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Sao Tome and Principe uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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