Country size comparison
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Gambia is about 91 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 1.1% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (1.7 million fewer people live in Gambia).
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