Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 505 times bigger than Mauritius.
Mauritius is approximately 2,040 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 50,425% larger than Mauritius. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritius is ~1.3 million people (2.9 million more people live in Mauritania).
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