Country size comparison

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Cameroon is about 2.2 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Cameroon is approximately 475,440 sq km, making Cameroon 46.13% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (25.2 million more people live in Cameroon).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Cameroon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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