Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 364 times bigger than Samoa.
Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 36,308% larger than Samoa. Meanwhile, the population of Samoa is ~206,179 people (4.0 million more people live in Mauritania).
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