Country size comparison
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Djibouti is about 44 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Djibouti is approximately 23,200 sq km, making Djibouti 2.25% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.2 million fewer people live in Djibouti).
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