Country size comparison

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Cameroon is about 3.3 times bigger than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Cameroon is approximately 475,440 sq km, making Cameroon 230% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (16.5 million more people live in Cameroon).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Cameroon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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