Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 1.2 times bigger than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 18% larger than Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (53.4 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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