Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 19 times smaller than Argentina.
Argentina is approximately 2,780,400 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 5.18% the size of Argentina.
Meanwhile, the population of Argentina is ~46.2 million people
(33.4 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Argentina
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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