Country size comparison

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Mauritius is about 71 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Mauritius is approximately 2,040 sq km, making Mauritius 1.42% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (11.5 million fewer people live in Mauritius).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Mauritius uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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