Country size comparison
compared to
Spain is about 2 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, making Spain 49.03% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (43.0 million more people live in Spain).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Spain
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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