Country size comparison

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Faroe Islands is about 103 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Faroe Islands is approximately 1,393 sq km, making Faroe Islands 0.97% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.8 million fewer people live in Faroe Islands).
This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Faroe Islands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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