Country size comparison
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Sao Tome and Principe is about 983 times smaller than Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.1% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (63.6 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
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