Country size comparison

compared to

Mauritania is around the same size as Colombia.

Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 90.5% the size of Colombia. Meanwhile, the population of Colombia is ~49.1 million people (44.9 million fewer people live in Mauritania).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Colombia vs. Mauritania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.