Country size comparison
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Somalia is about 1.6 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 61.87% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (8.2 million more people live in Somalia).
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