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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