Malaysia is about 3.1 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 32.0% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (29.7 million more people live in Malaysia).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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