Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 4.5 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 22.07% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (25.5 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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