State size comparison
Illinois, USA
compared to
Iowa, USA
Illinois is around the same size as Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 99.49% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (9.8 million more people live in Illinois).
We have positioned the outline of Iowa near the middle of Illinois.
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This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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