Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 6 times bigger than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 450% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (17.4 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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