State size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 1.8 times bigger than Maine.
Maine is approximately 79,931 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 80% larger than Maine. Meanwhile, the population of Maine is ~1.3 million people (11.5 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Maine
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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