Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 9 times bigger than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 770% larger than Malawi.
Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people
(16.6 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Malawi
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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