Country size comparison

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Angola is about 9 times bigger than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Angola is approximately 1,246,700 sq km, making Angola 766% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (22.0 million more people live in Angola).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Angola uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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