Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is around the same size as Nicaragua.
Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 10% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (6.5 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Nicaragua
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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