Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 8 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 12.24% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (37.7 million more people live in Tanzania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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