Country size comparison
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Tanzania is about 8 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 651% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (54.3 million more people live in Tanzania).
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