Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 16 times bigger than Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 1,481% larger than Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (9.7 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Puerto Rico
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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