State size comparison

compared to

Illinois is about 1.4 times smaller than Nebraska.

Nebraska is approximately 199,099 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 72.31% the size of Nebraska. Meanwhile, the population of Nebraska is ~1.8 million people (11.0 million more people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nebraska vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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