Country size comparison

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Israel is about 7 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Israel is approximately 21,937 sq km, making Israel 15.24% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (3.9 million fewer people live in Israel).
This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Israel uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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