Ontario is 1.04× the size of Mauritania

What fits

• Mauritania is 96% of the size of Ontario.
• Ontario is larger by 41,200 km² (15,900 mi²), which is 4.0% of the area of Mauritania.
• Measured in Belgiums: Ontario is about 35.1, Mauritania about 33.8.

How they differ

• Ontario also has the larger population: 14.2 million against 4.7 million, 3.00× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 13 in Ontario against 4.6 in Mauritania: Ontario is 2.89× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 7,250 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Ontario at 50°N is drawn about 2.4× too large and Mauritania at 20°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Ontario as 2.21× the size of Mauritania instead of 1.04×.
• Together Ontario and Mauritania cover 2,114,000 km², close to the size of Greenland (2,154,000 km², 1.9% bigger).
• The gap between them, 41,200 km², is about the size of Switzerland (41,400 km²).
• At Mauritania's density, Ontario would have 4.9 million people (it has 14.2 million). At Ontario's density, Mauritania would have 13.7 million (it has 4.7 million).
• Ontario's centre is 29.7° of latitude, about 3,300 km, farther north than Mauritania's.
• Ontario is the 4th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 11% of its area; it is the 3rd most densely populated of them.
• Mauritania ranks 30th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Ontario lies about 30° of latitude (roughly 3,300 km) north of Mauritania.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Ontario would have about 75,760 m² and each person in Mauritania about 218,830 m².
• Laid side by side, Ontario and Mauritania would cover 2,114,000 km², about the same size as Greenland.
• Together they have 19.0 million people, about as many people as Romania.
• Counted as a country, Ontario would rank 29th by area and 76th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 1,076,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,078,000 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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