Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 4.9 times bigger than Kansas.
Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 386% larger than Kansas. Meanwhile, the population of Kansas is ~2.9 million people (1.3 million more people live in Mauritania).
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