Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 2.3 times smaller than Malaysia.
Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 43.64% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (21.0 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Malaysia
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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