Country size comparison

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Sudan is about 13 times bigger than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, making Sudan 1,193% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (35.1 million more people live in Sudan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Sudan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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