Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 8 times bigger than Alabama.
Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 684% larger than Alabama.
Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people
(617,811 fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Alabama
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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