State size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 1.4 times bigger than Tennessee.
Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 35% larger than Tennessee.
Meanwhile, the population of Tennessee is ~6.3 million people
(6.5 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Tennessee
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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