Country size comparison
compared to
Egypt is about 7 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, making Egypt 596% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (94.9 million more people live in Egypt).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Egypt
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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