Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 2.3 times smaller than Algeria.
Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 43.28% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~44.2 million people (40.0 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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