Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 9 times bigger than Louisiana.
Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 814% larger than Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (371,447 fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Louisiana
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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