Country size comparison
compared to
Tuvalu is about 5,537 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Tuvalu is approximately 26 sq km, making Tuvalu 0.02% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.8 million fewer people live in Tuvalu).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Tuvalu
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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