Country size comparison
compared to
Japan is about 2.7 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km,
while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making
Japan 36.67% the size of Mauritania.
Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people
(120.1 million more people live in Japan).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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