Country size comparison

compared to

Tanzania is about 15 times bigger than West Virginia.

West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 1,419% larger than West Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of West Virginia is ~1.9 million people (62.0 million more people live in Tanzania).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of West Virginia vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.