Country size comparison
compared to
Germany is about 2.9 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, making Germany 34.64% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (80.2 million more people live in Germany).
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