Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 7 times bigger than El Salvador.
El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 584% larger than El Salvador.
Meanwhile, the population of El Salvador is ~6.6 million people
(6.3 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
El Salvador
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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