Country size comparison
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Israel is about 47 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Israel is approximately 21,937 sq km, making Israel 2.13% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (4.8 million more people live in Israel).
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