Country size comparison
compared to
Australia is about 8 times bigger than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 651% larger than Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (22.0 million more people live in Australia).
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