Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 1.6 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km,
while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making
Afghanistan 63.28% the size of Mauritania.
Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people
(34.2 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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