State size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 1.5 times smaller than Kansas.
Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 67.94% the size of Kansas.
Meanwhile, the population of Kansas is ~2.9 million people
(10.0 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Kansas
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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