Country size comparison
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Portugal is about 11 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, making Portugal 8.93% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (6.1 million more people live in Portugal).
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