Mauritania is about 3.8 times bigger than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 283% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (891,079 fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Mauritania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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