Country size comparison
compared to
Hong Kong is about 130 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.77% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (5.6 million fewer people live in Hong Kong).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Hong Kong
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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