Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 2 times smaller than Ecuador.
Ecuador is approximately 283,561 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 50.77% the size of Ecuador.
Meanwhile, the population of Ecuador is ~17.3 million people
(4.5 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Ecuador
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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