Country size comparison
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Bhutan is about 27 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Bhutan is approximately 38,394 sq km, making Bhutan 3.73% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.3 million fewer people live in Bhutan).
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