Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 2.1 times bigger than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 110% larger than Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (53.4 million more people live in Tanzania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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