Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 4.7 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 374% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (10.6 million more people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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