State size comparison
compared to
Louisiana is about 1.3 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, making
Louisiana 78.37% the size of Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(8.3 million fewer people live in Louisiana).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Louisiana
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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