Country size comparison

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South Korea is about 10 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 9.67% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (47.7 million more people live in South Korea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. South Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from South Korea to Mauritania · UN DESA 2020
74 people born in South Korea live in Mauritania.
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