State size comparison

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Illinois is about 6 times bigger than Maryland.

Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 469% larger than Maryland. Meanwhile, the population of Maryland is ~5.8 million people (7.1 million more people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maryland vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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