Country size comparison

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Jordan is about 1.6 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Jordan is approximately 89,342 sq km, making Jordan 62.06% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (1.8 million fewer people live in Jordan).
This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Jordan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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