Country size comparison
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Austria is about 12 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Austria is approximately 83,871 sq km, making Austria 8.14% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (4.8 million more people live in Austria).
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