Country size comparison

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Mauritania is about 10 times smaller than Canada.

Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 10.32% the size of Canada. Meanwhile, the population of Canada is ~38.2 million people (34.1 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Canada vs. Mauritania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Mauritania to Canada · OECD 2023
125 people moved from Mauritania to Canada.
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