Country size comparison
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Mauritania is around the same size as Colombia.
Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 90.5% the size of Colombia. Meanwhile, the population of Colombia is ~49.1 million people (44.9 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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