Country size comparison

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Hong Kong is about 130 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.77% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (5.6 million fewer people live in Hong Kong).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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