Country size comparison
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Tanzania is about 8 times bigger than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 680% larger than Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (60.9 million more people live in Tanzania).
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