Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 1.7 times smaller than Uganda.
Uganda is approximately 241,038 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 59.73% the size of Uganda. Meanwhile, the population of Uganda is ~46.2 million people (33.4 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Uganda
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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