Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 8 times smaller than Colombia.
Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 12.64% the size of Colombia.
Meanwhile, the population of Colombia is ~49.1 million people
(36.2 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Colombia
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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