Country size comparison
compared to
Sweden is about 3.1 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 213% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (2.3 million fewer people live in Sweden).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Sweden
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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