Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 7 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 14.04% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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