Country size comparison
compared to
Mali is about 9 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, making
Mali 761% larger than Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(7.9 million more people live in Mali).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Mali
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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