Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 2.5 times bigger than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 155% larger than California.
Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people
(33.1 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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