Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 3.3 times smaller than Cameroon.

Cameroon is approximately 475,440 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 30.28% the size of Cameroon. Meanwhile, the population of Cameroon is ~29.3 million people (16.5 million fewer people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Cameroon vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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