Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 1.4 times smaller than Senegal.
Senegal is approximately 196,722 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 73.18% the size of Senegal.
Meanwhile, the population of Senegal is ~17.9 million people
(5.1 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Senegal
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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