Solomon Islands is about 36 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Solomon Islands is approximately 28,896 sq km, making Solomon Islands 2.8% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.5 million fewer people live in Solomon Islands).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Solomon Islands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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