State size comparison
compared to
Maine is about 1.8 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Maine is approximately 79,931 sq km, making Maine 55.52% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (11.5 million fewer people live in Maine).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Maine
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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