Country size comparison
compared to
Nigeria is around the same size as Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 97.52% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (161.2 million more people live in Nigeria).
This to-scale comparison of
Tanzania
vs.
Nigeria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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