Country size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Tanzania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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