Country size comparison
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Turkey is about 1.3 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, making Turkey 76.02% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (78.9 million more people live in Turkey).
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