Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 1.6 times bigger than Somalia.
Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 62% larger than Somalia.
Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people
(8.2 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Somalia
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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