Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 6 times smaller than Nigeria.

Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 15.58% the size of Nigeria. Meanwhile, the population of Nigeria is ~225.1 million people (212.3 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of Nigeria vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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