Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 6 times bigger than Missouri.
Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 478% larger than Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (1.8 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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