State size comparison

compared to

Illinois is about 2 times smaller than Nevada.

Nevada is approximately 284,448 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 50.61% the size of Nevada. Meanwhile, the population of Nevada is ~2.7 million people (10.1 million more people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nevada vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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