Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 8 times smaller than Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 13.04% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (100.8 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Ethiopia
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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