Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 483 times bigger than Maldives.
Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 48,209% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~390,164 people (12.4 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Maldives
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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