Country size comparison
compared to
Chad is about 9 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, making Chad 792% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (5.1 million more people live in Chad).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Chad
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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