Country size comparison

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Bangladesh is about 7 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Bangladesh is approximately 148,460 sq km, making Bangladesh 14.4% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (161.5 million more people live in Bangladesh).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Bangladesh uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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