Country size comparison
compared to
United Kingdom is about 4.2 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, making United Kingdom 23.64% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (63.6 million more people live in United Kingdom).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
United Kingdom
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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