Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 2.5 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 39.19% the size of Mauritania.
Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people
(33.1 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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