Country size comparison
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Kenya is about 1.8 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, making Kenya 56.31% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (51.7 million more people live in Kenya).
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