State size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 813 times bigger than District of Columbia.
District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 81,234% larger than District of Columbia. Meanwhile, the population of District of Columbia is ~601,723 people (12.2 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
District of Columbia
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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