Country size comparison

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Finland is about 2.4 times bigger than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Finland is approximately 338,145 sq km, making Finland 135% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (7.2 million fewer people live in Finland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Finland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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