Country size comparison
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Mauritania is about 29 times bigger than Taiwan.
Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 2,765% larger than Taiwan. Meanwhile, the population of Taiwan is ~23.6 million people (19.4 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
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