Country size comparison
compared to
Malaysia is about 2.3 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making
Malaysia 129% larger than Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(21.0 million more people live in Malaysia).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Malaysia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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