Country size comparison
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Faroe Islands is about 740 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Faroe Islands is approximately 1,393 sq km, making Faroe Islands 0.14% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (4.1 million fewer people live in Faroe Islands).
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