Country size comparison
compared to
France is about 3.8 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making
France 283% larger than Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(55.5 million more people live in France).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
France
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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