Macedonia is about 6 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Macedonia is approximately 25,713 sq km, making Macedonia 17.86% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (10.7 million fewer people live in Macedonia).
This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Macedonia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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