Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 5 times smaller than Zambia.
Zambia is approximately 752,618 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 19.13% the size of Zambia.
Meanwhile, the population of Zambia is ~19.6 million people
(6.8 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Zambia
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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