Country size comparison

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Gibraltar is about 22,148 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Gibraltar is approximately 7 sq km, making Gibraltar 0.0% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.8 million fewer people live in Gibraltar).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Gibraltar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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