Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 10 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 9.87% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.3 billion fewer people live in Tanzania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of China vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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