Country size comparison
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Madagascar is about 4.1 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, making Madagascar 308% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (15.3 million more people live in Madagascar).
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