Country size comparison
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Turkmenistan is about 2.1 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 47.36% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (1.5 million more people live in Turkmenistan).
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