Country size comparison
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Vietnam is about 3.1 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Vietnam is approximately 331,210 sq km, making Vietnam 32.13% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (99.6 million more people live in Vietnam).
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