Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 4.1 times bigger than Michigan.
Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 311% larger than Michigan.
Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people
(5.7 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Michigan
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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