Country size comparison
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Gibraltar is about 158,569 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Gibraltar is approximately 7 sq km, making Gibraltar 0.0% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (4.1 million fewer people live in Gibraltar).
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