Country size comparison

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Serbia is about 1.9 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Serbia is approximately 77,474 sq km, making Serbia 53.82% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (6.1 million fewer people live in Serbia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Serbia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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