State size comparison

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Illinois is around the same size as Georgia.

Georgia is approximately 149,976 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 95.99% the size of Georgia. Meanwhile, the population of Georgia is ~9.7 million people (3.1 million more people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Georgia vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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