Country size comparison

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Mauritania is about 10 times bigger than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 901% larger than Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (3.8 million more people live in Mauritania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Mauritania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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