Country size comparison
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Tanzania is about 1.4 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 45% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (25.5 million more people live in Tanzania).
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