Country size comparison
compared to
Maryland is about 41 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 2.46% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (1.6 million more people live in Maryland).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Maryland
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