Country size comparison
compared to
Alaska is about 1.6 times bigger than Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 56% larger than Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (63.1 million fewer people live in Alaska).
This to-scale comparison of
Tanzania
vs.
Alaska
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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