Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 9 times bigger than Eritrea.
Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 776% larger than Eritrea.
Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people
(2.0 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Eritrea
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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