Country size comparison

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Bolivia is about 8 times bigger than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Bolivia is approximately 1,098,581 sq km, making Bolivia 663% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (776,253 fewer people live in Bolivia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Bolivia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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