Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 8 times bigger than Arkansas.
Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 664% larger than Arkansas. Meanwhile, the population of Arkansas is ~2.9 million people (1.2 million more people live in Mauritania).
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