Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 49 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 2.04% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (2.4 million more people live in El Salvador).
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