State size comparison
compared to
Connecticut is about 11 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, making Connecticut 8.72% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (9.3 million fewer people live in Connecticut).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Connecticut
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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