Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 16 times bigger than Latvia.
Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 1,496% larger than Latvia.
Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people
(2.3 million more people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Latvia
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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