Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 67 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 1.5% the size of China.
Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people
(1.4 billion fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
China
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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