Country size comparison

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India is about 23 times bigger than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, making India 2,183% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (1.4 billion more people live in India).
This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. India uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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