Country size comparison
compared to
Washington is about 6 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, making Washington 16.72% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (2.6 million more people live in Washington).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Washington
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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