Country size comparison

compared to

Yemen is about 1.9 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 51.22% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (26.8 million more people live in Yemen).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Yemen uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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