Country size comparison

compared to

Illinois is about 5 times smaller than Turkey.

Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 18.37% the size of Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~83.0 million people (70.2 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of Turkey vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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