Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 7 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 616% larger than Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(8.7 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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