Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 3.8 times bigger than Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 276% larger than Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (17.8 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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