Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 9 times bigger than Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 788% larger than Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (8.5 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Pennsylvania
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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