Country size comparison
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Jamaica is about 94 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Jamaica is approximately 10,991 sq km, making Jamaica 1.07% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~5.3 million people (2.5 million fewer people live in Jamaica).
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