Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 7 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 612% larger than Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(1.1 million more people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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