Country size comparison

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Cyprus is about 16 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Cyprus is approximately 9,251 sq km, making Cyprus 6.43% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (11.5 million fewer people live in Cyprus).
This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Cyprus uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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