Country size comparison
compared to
Lesotho is about 34 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km,
while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making
Lesotho 2.95% the size of Mauritania.
Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people
(2.0 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Lesotho
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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