Country size comparison
compared to
Luxembourg is about 56 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Luxembourg is approximately 2,586 sq km, making Luxembourg 1.8% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.2 million fewer people live in Luxembourg).
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