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