Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 41 times bigger than Maryland.
Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 3,972% larger than Maryland.
Meanwhile, the population of Maryland is ~5.8 million people
(1.6 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Maryland
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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