Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 36 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 2.78% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (50.7 million fewer people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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