Country size comparison

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Samoa is about 51 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 1.97% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.6 million fewer people live in Samoa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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