Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 1.6 times smaller than Iran.
Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 62.54% the size of Iran.
Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people
(82.6 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Iran
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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