Algeria is about 17 times bigger than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, making Algeria 1,554% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (31.3 million more people live in Algeria).
This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Algeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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