Country size comparison

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Guatemala is about 1.3 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Guatemala is approximately 108,889 sq km, making Guatemala 75.64% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (4.9 million more people live in Guatemala).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Guatemala uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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