Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 19 times smaller than Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan is approximately 2,724,900 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 5.28% the size of Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, the population of Kazakhstan is ~19.4 million people (6.6 million fewer people live in Illinois).
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