Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 1.8 times bigger than Madagascar.
Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 76% larger than Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (24.0 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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