Country size comparison
compared to
Kentucky is about 10 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km,
while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making
Kentucky 9.98% the size of Mauritania.
Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people
(177,442 more people live in Kentucky).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Kentucky
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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