Country size comparison

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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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Malta uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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