Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 3 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 32.84% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (27.6 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Iraq
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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