Country size comparison
compared to
Italy is about 2.1 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making
Italy 109% larger than Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(48.3 million more people live in Italy).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Italy
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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