State size comparison
compared to
Delaware is about 28 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Delaware is approximately 5,060 sq km, making Delaware 3.51% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (11.9 million fewer people live in Delaware).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Delaware
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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