Country size comparison
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Romania is about 4.3 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Romania is approximately 238,391 sq km, making Romania 23.13% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (14.4 million more people live in Romania).
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