Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 6 times bigger than Missouri.
Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 478% larger than Missouri.
Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people
(1.8 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Missouri
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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