Country size comparison
compared to
Zimbabwe is about 2.7 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Zimbabwe is approximately 390,757 sq km, making Zimbabwe 171% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (2.3 million more people live in Zimbabwe).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Zimbabwe
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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