Country size comparison

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Georgia is about 2.1 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Georgia is approximately 69,700 sq km, making Georgia 48.42% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (7.9 million fewer people live in Georgia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Georgia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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