Country size comparison

compared to

South Korea is about 10 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 9.67% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (47.7 million more people live in South Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. South Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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