Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 8 times bigger than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 748% larger than Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (1.2 million more people live in Mauritania).
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