Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 7 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 616% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (8.7 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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