Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 2.8 times smaller than Paraguay.

Paraguay is approximately 406,752 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 35.39% the size of Paraguay. Meanwhile, the population of Paraguay is ~7.4 million people (5.5 million more people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Paraguay vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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