Country size comparison
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Aruba is about 5,726 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Aruba is approximately 180 sq km, making Aruba 0.02% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (4.0 million fewer people live in Aruba).
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