Country size comparison
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Tanzania is around the same size as Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 91.91% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (59.7 million more people live in Tanzania).
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