Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 3.5 times bigger than Arizona.
Arizona is approximately 294,312 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 250% larger than Arizona.
Meanwhile, the population of Arizona is ~6.4 million people
(2.2 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Arizona
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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