State size comparison
compared to
Idaho is about 1.5 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Idaho is approximately 214,314 sq km, making Idaho 49% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (11.3 million fewer people live in Idaho).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Idaho
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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