Country size comparison

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Argentina is about 19 times bigger than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Argentina is approximately 2,780,400 sq km, making Argentina 1,831% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (33.4 million more people live in Argentina).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Argentina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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