Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 2.2 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 44.87% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (11.0 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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