Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 8 times smaller than Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 13.32% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (54.3 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
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