Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 5 times smaller than Chile.

Chile is approximately 756,102 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 19.04% the size of Chile. Meanwhile, the population of Chile is ~18.4 million people (5.6 million fewer people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chile vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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