Country size comparison
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Tanzania is about 8 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 686% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (37.9 million more people live in Tanzania).
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