Country size comparison
compared to
Yemen is about 3.7 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 267% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (18.2 million more people live in Yemen).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Yemen
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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