Country size comparison

compared to

Kuwait is about 8 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 12.38% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (9.8 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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