Country size comparison

compared to

Senegal is about 5 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Senegal is approximately 196,722 sq km, making Senegal 19.09% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (13.8 million more people live in Senegal).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Senegal uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.