Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 1.6 times smaller than Alaska.

Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 63.95% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (63.1 million more people live in Tanzania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alaska vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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