Country size comparison

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Nigeria is about 6 times bigger than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 542% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (212.3 million more people live in Nigeria).
This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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