Country size comparison
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Kazakhstan is about 19 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Kazakhstan is approximately 2,724,900 sq km, making Kazakhstan 1,793% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (6.6 million more people live in Kazakhstan).
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