Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 1.2 times bigger than Eritrea.
Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 22% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (6.6 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Eritrea
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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