Country size comparison
compared to
United States is about 68 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, making United States 6,731% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (324.5 million more people live in United States).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
United States
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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