Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 3 times bigger than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 204% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (27.6 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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