Country size comparison

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New York is about 8 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 12.91% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~70.5 million people (50.5 million fewer people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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