Country size comparison
compared to
Botswana is about 4 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making Botswana 304% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (10.4 million fewer people live in Botswana).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Botswana
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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