State size comparison

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Illinois is about 4.7 times smaller than Texas.

Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 21.23% the size of Texas. Meanwhile, the population of Texas is ~25.1 million people (12.3 million fewer people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Texas vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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