Country size comparison

compared to

Malaysia is about 2.9 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 34.82% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (30.0 million fewer people live in Malaysia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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