Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 3.8 times bigger than Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 278% larger than Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (54.0 million more people live in Tanzania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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