Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 2.1 times smaller than Italy.
Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 47.77% the size of Italy.
Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people
(48.3 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Italy
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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