Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 1.2 times smaller than Uruguay.

Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 81.7% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (9.4 million more people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Uruguay vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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