Country size comparison

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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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Argentina vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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