State size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 7 times bigger than Massachusetts.
Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 609% larger than Massachusetts. Meanwhile, the population of Massachusetts is ~6.5 million people (6.3 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Massachusetts
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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