Country size comparison

compared to

Japan is about 2.5 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 39.89% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (60.4 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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