Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 15 times smaller than Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 6.7% the size of Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the population of Saudi Arabia is ~35.4 million people (22.5 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Saudi Arabia
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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