Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 113 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km,
while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making
Puerto Rico 0.88% the size of Mauritania.
Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people
(1.1 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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