Country size comparison
compared to
Mauritania is about 6 times bigger than Washington.
Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 498% larger than Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (2.6 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
This to-scale comparison of
Washington
vs.
Mauritania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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