Country size comparison
compared to
Qatar is about 12 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 8.05% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (10.3 million fewer people live in Qatar).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Qatar
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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