Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 3.8 times bigger than Colorado.
Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 284% larger than Colorado. Meanwhile, the population of Colorado is ~5.0 million people (867,271 fewer people live in Mauritania).
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