Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 2.4 times smaller than Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 42.64% the size of Tanzania.
Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people
(26.6 million fewer people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Tanzania
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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