Country size comparison
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Puerto Rico is about 113 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 0.88% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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