Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 8 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 717% larger than North Carolina.
Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people
(5.4 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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