Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 1.6 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 58% larger than Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people
(34.2 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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