Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 1.9 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 53.84% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (56.7 million more people live in Tanzania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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