Country size comparison
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Mauritania is around the same size as Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 93.34% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (109.5 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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