Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 2.3 times smaller than Algeria.
Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 43.28% the size of Algeria.
Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~44.2 million people
(40.0 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Algeria
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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