Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 68 times smaller than United States.
United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 1.46% the size of United States. Meanwhile, the population of United States is ~337.3 million people (324.5 million fewer people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
United States
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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