State size comparison

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Hawaii is about 9 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Hawaii is approximately 16,635 sq km, making Hawaii 11.56% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (11.5 million fewer people live in Hawaii).
This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Hawaii uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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