Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 37 times bigger than Burundi.
Burundi is approximately 27,830 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 3,604% larger than Burundi. Meanwhile, the population of Burundi is ~12.7 million people (8.5 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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