Country size comparison
compared to
Mongolia is about 11 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Mongolia is approximately 1,564,116 sq km, making Mongolia 986% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (9.6 million fewer people live in Mongolia).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Mongolia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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