Timor-Leste is about 69 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Timor-Leste is approximately 14,874 sq km, making Timor-Leste 1.44% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (2.7 million fewer people live in Timor-Leste).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Timor-Leste uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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