Country size comparison
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Yemen is about 1.9 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 51.22% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~5.3 million people (36.5 million more people live in Yemen).
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