Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 3.4 times smaller than Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 29.49% the size of Turkmenistan. Meanwhile, the population of Turkmenistan is ~5.6 million people (7.2 million more people live in Illinois).
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