Maldives is about 3,459 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.03% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.8 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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