Country size comparison

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Samoa is about 364 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 0.27% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (4.0 million fewer people live in Samoa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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