Country size comparison
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Latvia is about 16 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 6.27% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~5.3 million people (3.5 million fewer people live in Latvia).
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