Country size comparison
compared to
Rwanda is about 5 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making
Rwanda 18.3% the size of Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(343,098 more people live in Rwanda).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Rwanda
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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