Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 800 times bigger than Aruba.

Aruba is approximately 180 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 79,878% larger than Aruba. Meanwhile, the population of Aruba is ~122,320 people (12.7 million more people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Aruba vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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