Country size comparison
compared to
Tanzania is about 7 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making
Tanzania 558% larger than Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(51.0 million more people live in Tanzania).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Tanzania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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