State size comparison

compared to

District of Columbia is about 813 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.12% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.2 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. District of Columbia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.