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 uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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