Country size comparison
compared to
Malta is about 456 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making
Malta 0.22% the size of Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(12.4 million fewer people live in Malta).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Malta
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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