Country size comparison

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Macau is about 5,105 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Macau is approximately 28 sq km, making Macau 0.02% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.2 million fewer people live in Macau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Macau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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