Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 4.3 times bigger than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 335% larger than Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (3.6 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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