Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 7 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 612% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.1 million more people live in Mauritania).
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