Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 1.9 times smaller than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 53.55% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (7.8 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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