Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 54 times bigger than New Jersey.
New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 5,265% larger than New Jersey. Meanwhile, the population of New Jersey is ~8.8 million people (4.6 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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