Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 1.2 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 84.55% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (53.4 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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