Country size comparison
compared to
Somalia is about 4.4 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 343% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (444,384 fewer people live in Somalia).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Somalia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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