State size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 2.3 times bigger than West Virginia.
West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 131% larger than West Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of West Virginia is ~1.9 million people (11.0 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
West Virginia
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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