Colombia is around the same size as Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, making Colombia 10% larger than Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (44.9 million more people live in Colombia).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Colombia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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