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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