Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 1.9 times smaller than Gabon.
Gabon is approximately 267,667 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 53.78% the size of Gabon. Meanwhile, the population of Gabon is ~2.3 million people (10.5 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Gabon
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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