Country size comparison
compared to
Nepal is around the same size as Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Nepal is approximately 147,181 sq km, making Nepal 2% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (17.8 million more people live in Nepal).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Nepal
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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