Hong Kong is about 930 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.11% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.1 million more people live in Hong Kong).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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