Country size comparison
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California is about 2.5 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 39.19% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (33.1 million more people live in California).
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