Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 1.5 times bigger than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 49% larger than Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (51.5 million more people live in Tanzania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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