Country size comparison

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Nigeria is around the same size as Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 97.52% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~70.5 million people (167.0 million more people live in Nigeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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