Country size comparison
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Finland is about 3 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Finland is approximately 338,145 sq km, making Finland 32.81% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~5.3 million people (331,371 more people live in Finland).
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