Guinea-Bissau is about 29 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Guinea-Bissau is approximately 36,125 sq km, making Guinea-Bissau 3.5% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (2.1 million fewer people live in Guinea-Bissau).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Guinea-Bissau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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