Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 9 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 10.87% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (63.5 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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