Country size comparison
compared to
Saudi Arabia is about 15 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, making Saudi Arabia 1,393% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (22.5 million more people live in Saudi Arabia).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Saudi Arabia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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