Colombia is 1.10× the size of Mauritania

Colombia covers about 1,135,000 km² (438,000 mi²) and Mauritania about 1,036,000 km² (400,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

1,135,000km²Colombia
1,036,000km²Mauritania

500 km

Colombia
Mauritania

What fits

Mauritania is 91% of the size of Colombia.
Colombia is larger by 98,700 km² (38,100 mi²), which is 9.5% of the area of Mauritania.
Measured in Belgiums: Colombia is about 37.0, Mauritania about 33.8.

How they differ

Colombia also has the larger population: 52.3 million against 4.7 million, 11.0× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 46 in Colombia against 4.6 in Mauritania: Colombia is 10.1× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 7,010 km apart.
On a standard web map Mauritania looks larger than Colombia: Colombia at 4°N is drawn about 1.0× too large and Mauritania at 20°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Mauritania as 1.03× the size of Colombia, when Colombia is 1.10× the size of Mauritania.
Together Colombia and Mauritania cover 2,172,000 km², close to the size of Greenland (2,154,000 km², 0.8% smaller).
The gap between them, 98,700 km², is about the size of South Korea (98,500 km²).
At Mauritania's density, Colombia would have 5.2 million people (it has 52.3 million). At Colombia's density, Mauritania would have 47.8 million (it has 4.7 million).
Mauritania's centre is 16.3° of latitude, about 1,810 km, farther north than Colombia's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Colombia	1.10×
More people	Colombia	11.0×
More crowded	Colombia	10.1×
Farther north	Mauritania	16.3° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Mauritania	1.1× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Colombia	Mauritania
Belgium 30,700 km²	37.0×	33.8×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	4.66×	4.25×
Germany 358,000 km²	3.17×	2.90×
Japan 374,000 km²	3.04×	2.77×
France 548,000 km²	2.07×	1.89×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.36×	0.33×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.13×	0.12×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.12×	0.11×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.07×	0.06×

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Colombia	Mauritania
Area, main territory	1,135,000 km²438,000 mi²	1,036,000 km²400,000 mi²
Population	52.3 millionWikidata, 2023	4.7 millionWikidata, 2022
Density	46 per km²	4.6 per km²
Official area	1,142,000 km²Wikidata	1,031,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Bogotá	Nouakchott
Latitude range	4°S to 14°N	15°N to 27°N
Continent	South America	Africa

Population: Wikidata 2023 and Wikidata 2022, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 1,142,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,135,000 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 1,031,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,036,000 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. Main territory: the largest landmass and every part within 1,000 km of it.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. Comparisons use main-territory area.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-11

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