Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 69 times smaller than Canada.

Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 1.44% the size of Canada. Meanwhile, the population of Canada is ~38.2 million people (25.4 million fewer people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Canada vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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