Country size comparison

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Bhutan is about 3.8 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Bhutan is approximately 38,394 sq km, making Bhutan 26.67% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.0 million fewer people live in Bhutan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Bhutan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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