Country size comparison
compared to
Christmas Island is about 7,635 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km,
while Christmas Island is approximately 135 sq km, making
Christmas Island 0.01% the size of Mauritania.
Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people
(4.2 million fewer people live in Christmas Island).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Christmas Island
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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