Country size comparison

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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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Colombia vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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