Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 6 times smaller than Namibia.

Namibia is approximately 824,292 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 17.46% the size of Namibia. Meanwhile, the population of Namibia is ~2.7 million people (10.1 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of Namibia vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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