Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 113 times bigger than Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 11,221% larger than Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (1.1 million more people live in Mauritania).
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