Country size comparison

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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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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