Vermont is about 40 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Vermont is approximately 23,956 sq km, making Vermont 2.53% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (63.2 million fewer people live in Vermont).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Vermont uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.