Country size comparison

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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 ~12.7 million people (73.2 million more people live in Turkey).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Turkey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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