Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 17 times smaller than Russia.
Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 6.03% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (137.9 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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