Country size comparison

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Netherlands is about 3.5 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 28.86% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (4.6 million more people live in Netherlands).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Netherlands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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