Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 9 times smaller than Chad.
Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 11.21% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~18.0 million people (5.1 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Chad
vs.
Illinois
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