Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 3.2 times smaller than India.
India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 31.35% the size of India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Mauritania).
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