Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 1.6 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 60.79% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (5.1 million more people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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