Country size comparison
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Eritrea is about 9 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 11.41% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~5.3 million people (1.7 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
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