State size comparison
compared to
Kentucky is about 1.4 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making
Kentucky 71.47% the size of Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(8.5 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Kentucky
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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