State size comparison

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New Hampshire is about 6 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while New Hampshire is approximately 23,227 sq km, making New Hampshire 16.13% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (11.5 million fewer people live in New Hampshire).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. New Hampshire uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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