Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 3.1 times smaller than Sweden.
Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 31.97% the size of Sweden.
Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people
(2.3 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Sweden
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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