New Jersey is about 7 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 13.34% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (4.0 million fewer people live in New Jersey).
This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. New Jersey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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