Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 4 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 24.75% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (10.4 million more people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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