Country size comparison
compared to
Iran is about 1.6 times bigger than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km,
while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making
Iran 60% larger than Mauritania.
Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people
(82.6 million more people live in Iran).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Iran
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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