State size comparison
compared to
North Dakota is about 1.2 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while North Dakota is approximately 178,647 sq km, making North Dakota 24% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.2 million fewer people live in North Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
North Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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