Country size comparison

compared to

West Virginia is about 15 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 6.58% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (62.0 million fewer people live in West Virginia).

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