Country size comparison
compared to
Belgium is about 4.7 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 21.21% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (983,294 fewer people live in Belgium).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Belgium
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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