Country size comparison

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France is about 1.7 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 58.22% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (4.5 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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