Country size comparison
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Zambia is about 1.4 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Zambia is approximately 752,618 sq km, making Zambia 73.02% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (15.5 million more people live in Zambia).
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