Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 9 times bigger than Guatemala.
Guatemala is approximately 108,889 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 847% larger than Guatemala. Meanwhile, the population of Guatemala is ~17.7 million people (13.5 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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