Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 1.4 times smaller than Belarus.
Belarus is approximately 207,600 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 69.35% the size of Belarus.
Meanwhile, the population of Belarus is ~9.4 million people
(3.4 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Belarus
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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