Country size comparison

compared to

Sweden is about 2.3 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 43.69% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (6.3 million more people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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