Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 2.5 times smaller than Germany.
Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 40.32% the size of Germany.
Meanwhile, the population of Germany is ~84.3 million people
(71.5 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Germany
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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