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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