Country size comparison

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Mauritania is about 4.2 times bigger than United Kingdom.

United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 323% larger than United Kingdom. Meanwhile, the population of United Kingdom is ~67.8 million people (63.6 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of United Kingdom vs. Mauritania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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