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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