Country size comparison
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Vanuatu is about 85 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 1.18% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~5.3 million people (5.0 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
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