Country size comparison

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Barbados is about 335 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Barbados is approximately 430 sq km, making Barbados 0.3% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.5 million fewer people live in Barbados).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Barbados uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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