Country size comparison
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Cook Islands is about 4,367 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Cook Islands is approximately 236 sq km, making Cook Islands 0.02% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (4.2 million fewer people live in Cook Islands).
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