Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 9 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 11.61% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (7.9 million fewer people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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