Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 85 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 1.18% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.9 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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