State size comparison

 Illinois, USA
compared to
 California, USA

Illinois is about 2.8 times smaller than California.

California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 35.64% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (24.4 million fewer people live in Illinois). We have positioned the outline of California near the middle of Illinois.
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Flip comparison: see Illinois on top of California
This to-scale comparison of California vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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