Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 51 times bigger than Massachusetts.
Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 4,976% larger than Massachusetts.
Meanwhile, the population of Massachusetts is ~6.5 million people
(2.4 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Massachusetts
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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