Country size comparison
compared to
Belgium is about 34 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km,
while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making
Belgium 2.96% the size of Mauritania.
Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people
(7.7 million more people live in Belgium).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Belgium
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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