Country size comparison
compared to
Switzerland is about 25 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 4.0% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (4.3 million more people live in Switzerland).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Switzerland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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