Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 4.1 times smaller than Madagascar.
Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 24.52% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (15.3 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Madagascar
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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