Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 7 times smaller than Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 15.2% the size of Tanzania.
Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people
(51.0 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Tanzania
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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