Virgin Islands is about 75 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Virgin Islands is approximately 1,910 sq km, making Virgin Islands 1.33% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.7 million fewer people live in Virgin Islands).
This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Virgin Islands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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