Country size comparison
compared to
Massachusetts is about 51 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km,
while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making
Massachusetts 1.97% the size of Mauritania.
Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people
(2.4 million more people live in Massachusetts).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Massachusetts
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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