Mauritania

Facts

What the numbers say about Mauritania

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 16.4× the size of Mauritania.
• Mauritania ranks 29th of 239 by area but only 126th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 4.6 people per km², Mauritania is the 172nd most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Mauritania lies at 20°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Mauritania's main territory stretches about 1,390 km north to south and 1,260 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 1,031,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,036,000 km², to within 2%.

How Mauritania measures up

Mauritania holds 3.5% of the land area and 0.3% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Western Africa it is the 3rd largest of 16.

Where Mauritania sits

• Mauritania's centre lies at 20.2°N, 10.4°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 2,250 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 15°N to 27°N, about 1,400 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Mauritania had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Mauritania would have 1.30 billion people. It has 4.7 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Mauritania would have 3.9 million people. It has 4.7 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 75.0 million.

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