Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 18 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 5.54% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (78.2 million fewer people live in Tanzania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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