Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 25 times bigger than Switzerland.
Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km,
while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making
Mauritania 2,397% larger than Switzerland.
Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people
(4.3 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Switzerland
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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