American Samoa is about 4,601 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while American Samoa is approximately 224 sq km, making American Samoa 0.02% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (4.1 million fewer people live in American Samoa).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. American Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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