Country size comparison

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Norway is about 3.2 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, making Norway 31.42% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (1.4 million more people live in Norway).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Norway uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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