Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 4.1 times bigger than Michigan.
Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 311% larger than Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (5.7 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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