Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 7 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 13.97% the size of Mauritania.
Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people
(8.7 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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