Country size comparison
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Burundi is about 37 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Burundi is approximately 27,830 sq km, making Burundi 2.7% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (8.5 million more people live in Burundi).
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