Country size comparison
compared to
Turkey is about 5 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, making
Turkey 444% larger than Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(70.2 million more people live in Turkey).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Turkey
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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