Country size comparison

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Estonia is about 3.2 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Estonia is approximately 45,228 sq km, making Estonia 31.42% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (11.6 million fewer people live in Estonia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Estonia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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