Country size comparison
compared to
Bulgaria is about 1.3 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making
Bulgaria 77.02% the size of Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(6.0 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Bulgaria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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