Country size comparison
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Luxembourg is about 399 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Luxembourg is approximately 2,586 sq km, making Luxembourg 0.25% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (3.5 million fewer people live in Luxembourg).
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