Country size comparison
Netherlands
compared to
Illinois, USA
Netherlands is about 3.5 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 28.86% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (4.6 million more people live in Netherlands).
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Illinois
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Netherlands
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