State size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 10 times smaller than Alaska.
Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 9.72% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (12.1 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Alaska
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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