Country size comparison
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North Carolina is about 8 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 12.24% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (5.4 million more people live in North Carolina).
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