Country size comparison

compared to

Illinois is about 2.2 times smaller than Poland.

Poland is approximately 312,685 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 46.04% the size of Poland. Meanwhile, the population of Poland is ~38.1 million people (25.3 million fewer people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Poland vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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