Country size comparison
compared to
Japan is about 2.6 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making
Japan 163% larger than Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(111.4 million more people live in Japan).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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