Country size comparison
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Nigeria is around the same size as Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 89.63% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (220.9 million more people live in Nigeria).
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