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