Country size comparison
compared to
Switzerland is about 3.5 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 28.67% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (4.3 million fewer people live in Switzerland).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Switzerland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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