Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 4.5 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 353% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (25.5 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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