Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 2.5 times bigger than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 151% larger than Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (60.4 million fewer people live in Tanzania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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