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).
This to-scale comparison of
Turkmenistan
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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