Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 8 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 675% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (44.5 million more people live in Tanzania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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