Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 3.7 times smaller than Yemen.
Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 27.27% the size of Yemen.
Meanwhile, the population of Yemen is ~31.0 million people
(18.2 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Yemen
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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