Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 4.4 times smaller than Somalia.
Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 22.58% the size of Somalia.
Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people
(444,384 more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Somalia
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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