Country size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 8 times smaller than Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 12.82% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (60.9 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
This to-scale comparison of
Tanzania
vs.
Mississippi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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