Country size comparison

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Colombia is about 8 times bigger than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, making Colombia 691% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (36.2 million more people live in Colombia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Colombia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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