Country size comparison
compared to
Syria is about 6 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 18.19% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (17.4 million more people live in Syria).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Syria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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