Country size comparison

compared to

New Jersey is about 54 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 1.86% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (4.6 million more people live in New Jersey).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. New Jersey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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