Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 13 times smaller than Sudan.

Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 7.73% the size of Sudan. Meanwhile, the population of Sudan is ~48.0 million people (35.1 million fewer people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sudan vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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