Country size comparison

compared to

Somalia is about 1.6 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 61.87% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (8.2 million more people live in Somalia).

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