Country size comparison
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District of Columbia is about 5,823 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.02% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~5.3 million people (4.6 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).
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