State size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is about 2.3 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 43.32% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (11.0 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
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