Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 2.2 times bigger than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 119% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (10.4 million fewer people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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