Country size comparison
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Greece is about 8 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Greece is approximately 131,957 sq km, making Greece 12.8% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (6.4 million more people live in Greece).
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