Country size comparison

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Bahrain is about 189 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Bahrain is approximately 760 sq km, making Bahrain 0.53% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (11.3 million fewer people live in Bahrain).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Bahrain uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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