Country size comparison

compared to

Swaziland is about 8 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Swaziland is approximately 17,364 sq km, making Swaziland 12.06% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (11.7 million fewer people live in Swaziland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Swaziland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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