Mauritania is 37% larger than Zambia.
Area: 1,030,700 km2 World Factbook
Population: 3,516,806 (July 2014) World Factbook
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in the Maghreb region of western North Africa. Wikipedia
Area: 752,618 km2 World Factbook
Population: 14,638,505 (July 2014) World Factbook
The Republic of Zambia is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, neighboring the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west. Wikipedia