Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 3.2 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 31.1% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (3.2 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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