Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 2.7 times smaller than Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe is approximately 390,757 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 36.84% the size of Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile, the population of Zimbabwe is ~15.1 million people
(2.3 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Zimbabwe
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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