Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 12 times smaller than Libya.
Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 8.18% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (5.7 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Libya
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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