Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 2.2 times bigger than Cameroon.
Cameroon is approximately 475,440 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 117% larger than Cameroon. Meanwhile, the population of Cameroon is ~29.3 million people (25.2 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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