Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 7 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 555% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (60.8 million more people live in Tanzania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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