Country size comparison
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Timor-Leste is about 10 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Timor-Leste is approximately 14,874 sq km, making Timor-Leste 10.33% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (11.4 million fewer people live in Timor-Leste).
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