Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 17 times smaller than Algeria.

Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 6.04% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~44.2 million people (31.3 million fewer people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Algeria vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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