Country size comparison

compared to

British Indian Ocean Territory is about 17,178 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while British Indian Ocean Territory is approximately 60 sq km, making British Indian Ocean Territory 0.01% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~5.3 million people (5.3 million fewer people live in British Indian Ocean Territory).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. British Indian Ocean Territory uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.